Christopher Columbus one of the most popular explorers throughout the world as well as the colonizer touring across the whole of the Atlantic Ocean is known for discovering American Continents. He is known for the contribution towards the establishment of an association between the Europeans and the indigenous Americans.More...

Though there are different opinions regarding the place as well as the date regarding Christopher Columbus’s birth but people generally accept that his birth place is Genoa, Italy and he was born in the year 1451. His father, Domenico Colombo, worked as wool weaver, while his mother was called Susanna Fontanarossa. He had 3 brothers.

Not much information is available regarding his childhood or his early life; there are only a few writings that can be accounted for. Columbus had claimed in various journals that he started off going to sea when he was just 10 years of age.More...

Christopher Columbus is quite popular as the founder of America. He is celebrated in the month of October, but he basically had not gone to the mainland, which was the US, till his 3rd voyage in the year 1498. He is also recognized as the earliest European explorer reaching America though there are sources that illustrate that he was not the only earliest explorer to do so. There are indications of people exploring the place even before 1492.More...

Christopher Columbus was born to a seafaring family and he grew up dreaming about starting off with his voyages one after another. People throughout the world are aware of his importance as well as his accomplishments but a very few people are actually aware of his personal traits or the personality that this great explorer owned. There are several opinions regarding his personality and none of them is final but they all state some or the other aspect of his personality.More...

Christopher Columbus, a very popular navigator, explorer, and colonizer from Genoa led to several voyages and so several discoveries that he made in all his voyages one after another. Though Christopher Columbus was not the very first explorer reaching Americas from Europe, his voyages helped to mold the future of the European colonization and also motivated the Europeans to explore more foreign places many centuries later.More...

To discover the sea route, Columbus, the explorer set sail to the Indies. Christopher Columbus ‘first Voyage was landed on a place San Salvador, which he named the Indians as inhabitants Indies as well. As per the historian perspective, his first remarkable landfall was on the island of the New World of San Salvador, on 12 October 1492.More...